Blake Rayne is a famous Elvis Presley impersonator. He was cast after one of his performances as Elvis garnered the casting director's attention.
Joe Pantoliano appeared in La Bamba 27 years earlier, playing Ritchie Valens' music manager, another movie about music and set around the 1950s.
Ray Liotta and Amanda Crew previously starred in the film Charlie St. Cloud (2010), but shared no screen time together.
When Ashley Judd's character, Louise, pointed out Drexel had shown up, her quote "Well kick the dog & spit in the fire" was the same thing Ashley's mother, Naomi Judd, said on stage when The Judds won their first country award.